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"{{Top}}[[Absenceabsent]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[|absence]]''){{Bottom}}

The <blockquote>"In [[the symbolic order]] is characterized by a binary opposition between [[absenceorder]] and nothing [[presenceexists]].<ref>{{S4}} p.67-8</ref> <blockquote>"In the [[symbolic order]] nothing exists except upon an assumed foundation of [[absence]]. Nothing exists except insofar as it does not [[exist]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref></blockquote> 

This <blockquote>"There is a basic difference between the no absence in [[symbolicThe Real|the real]] and the . There is only absence if you [[realsuggest]]that there may be a presence there where there isn't one."<ref>{{S2}} p.313</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>"There is no absence ==Linguistics==As [[Roman Jakobson]] showed with his [[analysis]] of [[phoneme]]s, all [[linguistic]] phenomena may be entirely characterized in [[terms]] of the real. There is only [[absence if you suggest that there may be a |presence there where there isn't one."<ref>{{S2}} p]] or [[absence]] of certain distinctive features.313</ref></blockquote>

==Absence and PresenceFort/Da====Presence [[Lacan]] sees the [[game]] of ''[[fort-da|fort!/da!]]'', which [[Freud]] describes in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]'', as a [[primitive]] phonemic opposition representing the child's entry into the [[symbolic order]]. The two sounds made by the [[development|child]], O/A, are "a pair of sounds modulated on presence and absence, and these sounds are related "to the presence and absence of persons and Absence==things."<ref>{{E}} p.65, 109, n.46</ref>

As [[Roman Jakobson]] showed with his analysis of [[phoneme]]s, all [[linguistic]] phenomena may be entirely characterized in terms of the [[presence]] or [[absence]] of certain distinctive features.<!-- [[Lacan]] sees In the game of ''"[[fort-da|fort!/da!]]''" game, which the [[Freudchild]] describes throws a cotton reel out of its cot in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]'', as a primitive phonemic opposition representing the child's entry into the order to [[symbolic order|symbolize]]. The two sounds made by the child, O/A, are "a pair of sounds modulated on [[presence]] and [[absence]], and these sounds are related "to the [[presence]] and [[absence]] of persons and things."<ref>{{E}} p.65, 109, n.46</ref> == Fort-Da ==According to [[Lacan]], the game of [[fort-damother]], introduced by . [[Freud]] in "[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle," represents Symbolic|Symbolization begins when the [[child]]'s entrance into the gets its first [[symbolicsense]] that something could be [[ordermissing]]. The phonemic opposition - "fort" and "da" - are "a pair of sounds modulated on presence and absence."<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref> == Language Word==The In the [[symbolsymbolic order]] is used in the , [[absence]] of the thing. has a [[Lacanexistence|positive existence]] argues that the or [[wordabsence|presence]] is a "presence made of absence."<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref>

[[Absence]] has <blockquote>"Through the word, which is already a positive [[existence]] in the [[symbolic]] as [[presence]]made of absence, absence itself comes to be named."<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref></blockquote>

[[Lacan]] argues that "the nothing" (''le rien'') is in itself an [[objectnotes]] (or '[[partial object]]').<ref>{{S4}} p.184-5</ref> ==Word== [[Lacan]] notes that the [[symbol]] -- or [[word]] -- is "a [[absence|presence]] made of [[absence]]" because:

# [[signifiers]] only exist insofar as they are opposed to [[other ]] [[signifiers]].<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref> <blockquote>"Through the word, which is already a presence made of absence, absence itself comes to be named."</blockquote> ==The Presence of Absence==

Because of <!-- There is [[loss]] in the mutual implication of word. [[absenceLanguage]] and can operate only by designating an [[presenceobject]] in the its ''[[absence]]''. [[symbolic orderLacan]], argues that [[absencesymbolization]] can be said to have an equally positive existence in turns on the [[symbolicobject]] as ''[[presenceabsence]]''. -->

==Presence==Because of the mutual implication of [[absence]] and [[absence|presence]] in the [[symbolic order]], [[absence]] can be said to have an equally positive [[existence]] in the [[symbolic]] as [[absence|presence]]. This is what allows [[Lacan]] to say that "the nothing" (''le rien'') is in itself an [[object]] (a [[partial object]]).<ref>{{S4}} p.184-5</ref>

 It is around the [[absence|presence]] and [[absence]] of the [[phallus]] that [[sexual difference]] is [[symbolically]] apprehended by the [[development|child]].  [[Sexual difference]] is apprehended by the [[child]] [[symbolic]]ally around the [[absence|presence]] and [[absence]] of the [[phallus]]. 

{{See}}* [[Existence]]* [[Fort-Da]]||* [[Linguistics]]* [[Object]]||* [[symbolicPhallus]]* [[presenceSexual difference]]||* [[objectSignifier]]* [[fort-daSymbol]]||* [[Symbolic]]* [[childReal]]{{Also}}

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